Are there any complications that stem from switching from a two piece bridge to a one piece tremolo?

Greetings Rorschach147!

As far as I can tell, in the hands of an experienced luthier, no. There shouldn't be any complications in going from a stock two-piece bridge to a trem unless the original two-piece bridge was counter-sunk into the body in some odd pattern that might hamper the trem's ability to seat into the wood solidly. The only other possible issue would be intonation. I've seen boutique basses with all sorts of oddball bridge configurations that have the intonation line set too far back to be able to fit a trem.

I occasionally switch tunings from drop d to std e. Yes, with a kahler, i need to re tune all 4 strings. I dont know why people try to convince themselves that this works. If it does, it defies my laws of physics.

I agree with mike ont he fact that this is impossible within the laws of physics. HOWEVER, the effect of detuning can be minimised! Very light tension E string and the other strings very heavy tension would help, and there is of course the possibility of slightly detuning the other strings flat in D and slightly sharp in E, however this is al theoretical and I wouldn't go through the problems, just retune it....

I agree with mike ont he fact that this is impossible within the laws of physics. HOWEVER, the effect of detuning can be minimised! Very light tension E string and the other strings very heavy tension would help, and there is of course the possibility of slightly detuning the other strings flat in D and slightly sharp in E, however this is al theoretical and I wouldn't go through the problems, just retune it....

I'm not sure having it normally out of tune is really what I'd call minimizing the effects of detuning. Sure it's back in tune when it's detuned, but in standard it's out of tune. I'd rather be out of tune in the tuning I use less, personally.

I don't play below standard enough to justify getting one of those things. I've got my sixer for anything above or below standard, I'd rather just switch bases between songs like a normal person. Not to mention that anyone with a good ear or good muscle memory can give their tuning key a quick twist and be in drop D just as quick.

I agree with mike ont he fact that this is impossible within the laws of physics. HOWEVER, the effect of detuning can be minimised! Very light tension E string and the other strings very heavy tension would help, and there is of course the possibility of slightly detuning the other strings flat in D and slightly sharp in E, however this is al theoretical and I wouldn't go through the problems, just retune it....

I'm not sure having it normally out of tune is really what I'd call minimizing the effects of detuning. Sure it's back in tune when it's detuned, but in standard it's out of tune. I'd rather be out of tune in the tuning I use less, personally.

I don't play below standard enough to justify getting one of those things. I've got my sixer for anything above or below standard, I'd rather just switch bases between songs like a normal person. Not to mention that anyone with a good ear or good muscle memory can give their tuning key a quick twist and be in drop D just as quick.

I wasn't suggesting to detune the strings very much, just a little, to compensate for the effect of the D-tuner. Then again we all quite much agree on the point that a D-tuner with a Kahler is far from ideal and quite a pain in the ***, especially compared to just having a second instrument specially for a different tuning. Right?

for the 2 fronts that collided it was the worst scenario possible for NY/NJ/MD/CT pretty much gonna leave NYC closed for the rest of the week from flooding, bitch is that 80% of all communications for the whole east coast goes to NYC then back out to wherever, so a LOT, and I mean a LOT of people are SOL for at least till the middle of next week power will come back on for those who are dead still, but phones and internet will take that much longer and many hundreds of thousands will not be watching tv or surfing the net anytime soon..